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NEWS: Paprika Novel to Get Hollywood Live-Action Series


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GATSU



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2022 1:21 pm Reply with quote
The late Wolfgang Petersen previously tried to adapt Paprika into live-action. I hope this doesn't hurt Nolan's Oscar chances again. Wink
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meiam



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2022 1:29 pm Reply with quote
The entire point of paprika is the great looking anime visual, turning it into LA will just make it into another 3D CG and marvel already makes a bunch of those.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2022 1:40 pm Reply with quote
Meiam: Plus, that last Spider-Man movie borrowed generously from Paprika.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2022 1:48 pm Reply with quote
meiam wrote:
The entire point of paprika is the great looking anime visual, turning it into LA will just make it into another 3D CG and marvel already makes a bunch of those.
This is pretty much what I was thinking. What I don't get is that there ARE animes out there that would transition nicely into western live action films *coughBlackLagooncough*

There seems to be this obsession with going after the harder to adapt properties
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2022 1:53 pm Reply with quote
meiam wrote:
The entire point of paprika is the great looking anime visual, turning it into LA will just make it into another 3D CG and marvel already makes a bunch of those.


How can a serialised sci-fi novel published in 1993 have its entire point be "the great looking anime visual"? It's simply not possible.

The existing Paprika movie is not the original work. It's fine for someone else to adapt the novel. It's a Yasutaka Tsutsui novel after all, those things can get adapted again and again and again with no harm done.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2022 2:39 pm Reply with quote
If this is "inspired by" Paprika, then what was Inception?
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blahmoomoo



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2022 2:47 pm Reply with quote
kuma991 wrote:
If this is "inspired by" Paprika, then what was Inception?


The Satoshi Kon movie is a very loose adaptation of the novel, not the other way around.
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The Not so Chosen One



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2022 2:57 pm Reply with quote
Of course the producer of the Death Note movie and the director of Birds Of Prey are involved in this. It's not a Netflix adaptation, but those names don't inspire confidence.

kuma991 wrote:
If this is "inspired by" Paprika, then what was Inception?

Comparing Inception to Paprika gotta be one of the most exaggerated, overblown memes the internet has invented, because seriously, there aren't that much similarities between both properties beyond the core concept.

GATSU wrote:
Meiam: Plus, that last Spider-Man movie borrowed generously from Paprika.

Sure, apparently every movie ever borrows something from Paprika Rolling Eyes

Brack wrote:
How can a serialised sci-fi novel published in 1993 have its entire point be "the great looking anime visual"? It's simply not possible.

The existing Paprika movie is not the original work. It's fine for someone else to adapt the novel. It's a Yasutaka Tsutsui novel after all, those things can get adapted again and again and again with no harm done.

That's the same train of thought people use to compare Paprika with every movie under the sun. I'm not gonna pretend I knew Paprika was originally a book, but tother people and so-called "fans" are only about the shallow stuff and nothing else.


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PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2022 3:00 pm Reply with quote
Not So Chosen One: I got cut off, but when I asked Nolan, he said he heard of it, and would like to see it, before doing a closed interview for something else the next year.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2022 3:40 pm Reply with quote
Not without Kon's eternal music. No one can compare with him, never. The Legend died.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2022 4:46 pm Reply with quote
GATSU wrote:
Not So Chosen One: I got cut off, but when I asked Nolan, he said he heard of it, and would like to see it, before doing a closed interview for something else the next year.


So it was YOU who did this!

Jokes aside, I don't suppose the novel is available in English?
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GATSU



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2022 5:04 pm Reply with quote
Juno: It got translated in the UK, and I got it off Amazon.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2022 6:38 pm Reply with quote
So is this going to be adapting the novel more faithfully or trying to do a live-action take on the anime?

Either way I don't see this outdoing the anime.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2022 7:08 pm Reply with quote
09jcg wrote:
What I don't get is that there ARE animes out there that would transition nicely into western live action films *coughBlackLagooncough*


Not mainstream enough not to mention be careful what you ask for transition nicely doesn’t mean acted, written, casted, or directed properly.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2022 7:34 pm Reply with quote
Oh boy-I can hardly wait to see how badly this gets screwed up.
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